It's a technique to remove pixellisation on linestypically curves or diagonal lines on screen.
In the example of a black line on white background, instead of each pixel being either white or black, some different shades of grey will be used to stop the 'step' effect you get otherwise.
There's a good example if you look at: images.google.com/images?q=anti-aliasing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
(In the example of a black line on white background, instead of each pixel being either white or black, some different shades of grey will be used to stop the 'step' effect you get otherwise.
There's a good example if you look at: images.google.com/images?q=anti-aliasing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
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